Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worked four days, 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. The pay is only minimum wage, she says, standard for the local people hired as extras, "but they feed us out of this world. And I do feel like a celebrity. I'd do it again, yes, ma'am. In a heartbeat." Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus. Just now she is watching another scene being shot and reshot: Sissy Spacek, as the youngest MaGrath sister, Babe, looking on forlornly as her 15- year-old black lover Willie Jay and his dog Dog, each wearing sunglasses as disguise...
Fourteen years later, Mia Chung '86 is sharing her gift with the rest of the world as the most renowned concert musician to come out of Harvard since the cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76. In April, she was the first Harvard student in 10 years to give a benefit concert when she performed for Phillips Brooks House at Sanders Theater. Her next recital will be at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. later this month, and she has been invited to compete in the Gina Bauchauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City...
...Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, and AT&T, the leading provider of long-distance telephone service, last week named new chief executive officers. The change in command at Ma Bell had been anticipated, but the timing of the Gannett switch came as a surprise...
...increase the company's most recent proposed long-distance rate cut to an average of 11.8%, by far the largest in its 101-year history. If approved, the new charges would take effect on June 1. AT&T's new boss, like its old one, clearly wants to keep Ma Bell's lock on the lucrative long-distance market...
Digital gives you "just the facts, ma'am." And digested. Digital arbitrarily cuts up the continuum of information into bite-size bits, selects pieces and presents them back glued together to simulate the original continuum. That makes for efficiency. Because numbers can be instantly checked for errors and instantly re-sent, digital information can be transmitted over vast distances and through imperfect media without distortion. It arrives intact at the other end, ready to be turned back into a whole. But not quite the whole...